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Notes on development, design, and the decisions behind them.

Monitoring dashboard of a SaaS in production with real-time metrics
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Building and running a SaaS: what changes once customers are paying

There's a huge difference between building a product and keeping it running on a Tuesday at 3am when a payment webhook fails. What I learned taking GymSmartAccess from idea to a real business.

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Diagram of business decisions preceding a product's technical architecture
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The decisions behind a SaaS that have nothing to do with code

The framework you pick matters less than you think. The decisions that actually determine whether a product survives happen earlier, and they're business decisions, not architecture ones.

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Usability heuristics checklist over an interface
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How I audit an interface with Nielsen's 10 heuristics

A heuristic audit is the cheapest way to find real problems before touching a single pixel. Here's how I run one, and what it surfaced on an e-commerce platform with 34 years in the market.

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